The city of Cairo, Egypt, has not escaped that trend. From 1952 to 2005, the population of Cairo tripled bringing it to roughly 17 million by 2005. The largely unregulated influx of people into ...

Sinclair is the Founder and Executive Director of Architecture for Humanity, a nonprofit organization founded in 1999 to provide architectural and design solutions for threatened communities. From ...

2008 Map “Historic Cairo”, A3, scale 1:50000 showing in black the boundary of component 089-001 and in yellow its buffer zone. Clarification / adopted 2008 Map “Al-Fustat”, A3, scale 1:2500, ...

Mai Ghaly Elgazzar’s map Egypt Old Cairo blends the past and the present to capture the rich and storied history of Cairo. For this Behind the Map, we connected with Elgazzar to learn how she ...

Beiyout Al-Qahera – Terhal fi hakaya al-hagar [Cairo Houses: A Journey Through the Stories of Stones] and Khitat Al-Qahera – Maqalat fi al-tatawur al-omrani [Cairo Maps: Articles on Urban ...